There are a lot of ways to handle Yeerks - create an Iskoort system for them, voluntary hosts (total and timeshares), straight-up kicking them off the planet, artificial environments, returning them to their environment, ect...most likely, after the war, a combination of all of the above would have to have been enforced for any kind of humane functionality.
That said, you do have a point - for all that the U.S. masquerades as the land of liberty and freedom, our State is damn controlling at times, and at the top of a slippery slope into totalitarianism. They absolutely would try to forbid voluntary Yeerks/Controllers. The question is, will it do anything? The U.S. has a long track record with failure in limiting victimless crimes - i.e. alcohol (prohibition), drugs (War on Drugs), and prostitution (Nevada may be the only place where it's legal, but that's certainly not the only place it's happening - quite frankly I knew girls in my rural junior high school in Oregon on that track who probably didn't even know that it was illegal, and not just 'against the rules'). Controllers will still be around, it's just a question of if they truly are Voluntary (not as much), and what the side effects of their presence are.
Not to mention - how involved are Andalites and other species with humanity, now? It's been a long time since I've read 54, so I may be remembering it incorrectly/may be remembering the fanon, but it said Andalites started coming to Earth for our Cinnabons, right? What's the American government going to do in the face of that? What kind of technologies are the Andalites going to bring with them, and how much are humans going to get, legally and otherwise? Like, seriously, how is that going to effect our economy? Our religions? Our cultures?
Any new culture clashing into another one headlong, even without colonization or war, creates havoc, at least in human history. An entire new species, or even several? With a sudden and rapid change in technology and interaction? Cultures have changed massively in the last decade or two just because people can instantaneously communicate with each other from around the world - it still takes a day or two to actually get there. But what if suddenly we had access to interstellar travel? My father (who I live in Los Angeles with) would go from having to teleconference with colleagues in China and India and Europe to actually going there himself, and still be back home in time for dinner. How would this effect immigration on Earth? Humans are a rather territorial species. How are we going to enforce not letting people into the Country Next Door when they can hope over to the moon and back as part of a daily commute?
In other words, after the war, there will have been a lot of Total Chaos that got glossed over in the books. I'd be willing to buy the "they were for kids!" excuse, except I'm pretty sure Avatar: The Last Airbender has an even younger target demographic and they are diving headfirst into these kinds of complications with success, so now I'm a lot more hesitant about that sort of thing. That said it was the 90's... With this kind of Total Chaos, one has to consider a.) what everyone will try to do about it, and b.) what will actually happen. In any government (but especially America's) there is a gigantic difference between the two, and that gap would only grow in a post-Alien-War Earth.
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This got a lot longer than I'd intended...is my Poli Sci major showing? :P 2/2
Date: 2012-05-02 10:22 pm (UTC)That said, you do have a point - for all that the U.S. masquerades as the land of liberty and freedom, our State is damn controlling at times, and at the top of a slippery slope into totalitarianism. They absolutely would try to forbid voluntary Yeerks/Controllers. The question is, will it do anything? The U.S. has a long track record with failure in limiting victimless crimes - i.e. alcohol (prohibition), drugs (War on Drugs), and prostitution (Nevada may be the only place where it's legal, but that's certainly not the only place it's happening - quite frankly I knew girls in my rural junior high school in Oregon on that track who probably didn't even know that it was illegal, and not just 'against the rules'). Controllers will still be around, it's just a question of if they truly are Voluntary (not as much), and what the side effects of their presence are.
Not to mention - how involved are Andalites and other species with humanity, now? It's been a long time since I've read 54, so I may be remembering it incorrectly/may be remembering the fanon, but it said Andalites started coming to Earth
for our Cinnabons, right? What's the American government going to do in the face of that? What kind of technologies are the Andalites going to bring with them, and how much are humans going to get, legally and otherwise? Like, seriously, how is that going to effect our economy? Our religions? Our cultures?Any new culture clashing into another one headlong, even without colonization or war, creates havoc, at least in human history. An entire new species, or even several? With a sudden and rapid change in technology and interaction? Cultures have changed massively in the last decade or two just because people can instantaneously communicate with each other from around the world - it still takes a day or two to actually get there. But what if suddenly we had access to interstellar travel? My father (who I live in Los Angeles with) would go from having to teleconference with colleagues in China and India and Europe to actually going there himself, and still be back home in time for dinner. How would this effect immigration on Earth? Humans are a rather territorial species. How are we going to enforce not letting people into the Country Next Door when they can hope over to the moon and back as part of a daily commute?
In other words, after the war, there will have been a lot of Total Chaos that got glossed over in the books. I'd be willing to buy the "they were for kids!" excuse, except I'm pretty sure Avatar: The Last Airbender has an even younger target demographic and they are diving headfirst into these kinds of complications with success, so now I'm a lot more hesitant about that sort of thing.
That said it was the 90's...With this kind of Total Chaos, one has to consider a.) what everyone will try to do about it, and b.) what will actually happen. In any government (but especially America's) there is a gigantic difference between the two, and that gap would only grow in a post-Alien-War Earth.